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| - DO NOT PURCHASE THE VIP PACKAGE! This includes admission, t-shirt and a line pass (not even sure what that is). Hooters Hotel offers it for $64.99 but Vegas.com offers it for $54.99 but they charge a convenience fee but still came out $16 cheaper (for 8 folks). BUT IT'S NOT WORTH IT!
We show up at 9:20pm (that's 10 minutes before the show starts) and get our tickets, where the Hooters employee stamps "VIP SEATING" on our tickets but proceeds to tell me that there are no VIP seats left. They allowed General Admission ticket holders to fill in the VIP spots. I quickly said, well what's the point of buying VIP seating tickets? He had no answer and said I could ask the person (I believe, Elizabeth) once upstairs if there were any VIP seats left. So, I did that once we were in the theater. She said there were no more VIP seats as they allowed general admission ticket holders to fill them in. So I asked her the same question of "what's the point of buying VIP seats"? She had no answer as well.
Then after the show was over, we went to collect our T-shirts that we paid for... and they didn't have the sizes for any of our group of 8. Men's shirts were only 2XL and women's were small. Again, why did I pay MORE for VIP tickets with these "benefits" (tickets, VIP seating and T-shirts) when I received none of the benefits? I don't know and I never will again and hopefully, I'm saving any YELP readers money now.
In regards to the show... we had plans to go see Cirque's "O" show but I decided to find good Yelp reviews on shows that might not be your typical Vegas show... and I found Purple Reign. Had great reviews. So, I decided to buy tickets for our group. We were in Vegas for my wife's 40th birthday and she wanted to go after I told her the show premise and reviews.
We really liked the actual show. But the overall experience was soured by our lack of VIP seats! And they gave away the seats before the actual show started. So unfortunately, the Purple Reign "experience" only gets 3 stars.
For the artists performing in Purple Reign, you may want to make sure your venue takes care of your guests (the people that are PAYING to see you and support you). Otherwise, your reviews suffer.
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